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For anybody wishing to read the background to the employment (misemployment?) of Air Gunners I can recommend Wg Cdr Jeff Jefford's excellent book
Observers and Navigators and other non-pilot aircrew in the RFC, RNAS, and RAF. It covers the whole history of that period.
This is one heck if a book, well written, logically presented, lots of relevant illustrations. I have the early blue and the augmented white editions.
not a bed-time read, the book is big, heavy and on quality paper.
Well worth a punt.